The 1970s Australia I grew up in was a country that was not kind by our modern, ‘woke’ standards, but it was legible. It was Anglo-centric, blunt, and often indifferent to the hurt feelings of us ...

After being jailed as a resistance organizer for the Tamil minority in his native Sri Lanka, he spoke out against governmental repression worldwide.

There were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025, a historic low announced Friday by The Carter ...

Catherine O’Hara, the Emmy-winning actor known for comedic roles across the decades — from “Home Alone” to “Schitt’s Creek” — died Friday at 71.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter largely credited his wife, Rosalynn Carter, with his long life, and he was sadly changed ...

Former CDC Director Bill Foege saved millions of lives by helping eradicate smallpox. He worried until his death about dark forces undermining public health.

On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost ...

American epidemiologist William Foege, the tenth Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose ...

William Foege was called 'one of the best people I've ever met' by a friend and was credited with saving millions of lives by ...

William (Bill) Foege, credited by many for shepherding the smallpox eradication effort to completion, died Saturday at the ...

Forty-eight years ago this month, Hubert Horatio Humphrey died. At the time I was a young reporter at the Sioux Falls Argus ...